မေတ္တာ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali mettā, ultimately from Sanskrit मैत्री (maitrī). Doublet of မိတ် (mit).

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: မျစ်တာ

IPA^(key): /mjɪʔtà/

Romanization: MLCTS: metta • ALA-LC: mettā • BGN/PCGN: myitta • Okell: myiʔta

Noun

မေတ္တာ • (metta)

love, kindness, affection, benevolence
(Buddhism) metta, one of the Ten Perfections

Derived terms

မေတ္တာစာ (mettaca, noun)
မေတ္တာပို့ (mettapui., verb)
မေတ္တာရပ်ခံ (mettaraphkam, verb)

See also

ပါရမီဆယ်ပါး (para.mihcaipa:)

References

“မေတ္တာ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Mon

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali metta.

Noun

မေတ္တာ (mètta)

loving friend
friendship, love

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

mettā (Latin script)
𑀫𑁂𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀸 (Brahmi script)
मेत्ता (Devanagari script)
মেত্তা (Bengali script)
මෙත‍්තා (Sinhalese script)
မေတ္တႃ or မေတ်တႃ (Burmese script)
เมตฺตา or เมตตา (Thai script)
ᨾᩮᨲ᩠ᨲᩣ (Tai Tham script)
ເມຕ຺ຕາ or ເມຕຕາ (Lao script)
មេត្តា (Khmer script)
𑄟𑄬𑄖𑄴𑄖𑄂 (Chakma script)

Noun

မေတ္တာ f

Burmese script form of mettā

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